African American Biography

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    • The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
    • By: Stephon Alexander
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander uses jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe....

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    • The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
    • By: Dr. William F. Pepper Esq.
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 16-12-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • William Pepper was James Earl Ray's lawyer in the trial for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., and even after Ray's conviction and death, Pepper continues to argue Ray's innocence....

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    • A Radical Democratic Vision
    • By: Barbara Ransby
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-2021
    • Language: English
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    • In this deeply researched biography, Barbara Ransby chronicles civil rights activist Ella Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, an intellectual, and a teacher....

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    • On Blackness and Being
    • By: Christina Sharpe
    • Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake"....

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    • As Told to Alex Haley
    • By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
    • Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
    • Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 313 ratings
    • In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....

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    • The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
    • By: Kevin Young
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon, examining what motivates hucksters and makes the rest of us so gullible....

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    • The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
    • By: Elijah Anderson
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Black in White Space, Anderson brings his immense knowledge and ethnography to bear in this timely study of the racial barriers that are still firmly entrenched in our society at every class level....

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    • Jesse Owens' Olympic Triumph
    • By: Nel Yomtov, Eduardo Garcia
    • Narrated by: Anonymous
    • Length: 24 mins
    • Release date: 15-03-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, the last thing Adolf Hitler expected was to see a black man compete and win. But Jesse Owens didn't just win. He was dominant in the track and field events, winning four gold medals and helping to set a world record....

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    • The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
    • By: John Szwed
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra - a.k.a. Herman Blount - was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn....

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    • Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
    • By: Barack Obama
    • Narrated by: Barack Obama
    • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum....

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    • A Revolutionary Life
    • By: Philippe Girard
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 22-11-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Philippe Girard shows how Toussaint Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman into revolutionary hero as the mastermind of the bloody slave revolt of 1791....

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    • An American Controversy
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-2020
    • Language: English
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    • When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings intensified this debate by identifying glaring inconsistencies....

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    • Living (and Dying) While Black in America
    • By: D. Watkins
    • Narrated by: Brandon Rubin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-2015
    • Language: English
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    • Watkins writes about his bleeding hometown with the razor-sharp insights of someone who bleeds along with it....

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    • The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal
    • By: Vaunda Nelson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Free
    • Length: 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-2011
    • Language: English
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    • Vaunda Micheaux Nelson received the Coretta Scott King Award for her children’s book Almost to Freedom....

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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-2008
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

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    • The Life of Pauli Murray
    • By: Rosalind Rosenberg
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of Pauli Murray, who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements....

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    • How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town
    • By: Anthony S. Pitch
    • Narrated by: Brad Sanders, Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Nothing casts a more sinister shadow over our nation's history than the gruesome lynchings that happened between 1882 and 1937, claiming 4,680 victims....

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    • By: Sarah L. Schuette
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Explore the life and achievements of Wallace Amos, entrepreneur and founder of Famous Amos cookies....

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    • My Life in Basketball
    • By: Clyde Drexler, Kerry Eggers
    • Narrated by: Gregory Gorton
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 24-01-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Autobiography of Hall of Fame basketball star Clyde Drexler, one of basketball history's most dynamic players....

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    • A Memoir of Civil Rights Activism in the Deep South
    • By: Donald A. Jelinek
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 22-12-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years....

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